The TV industry and social media has been buzzing since last night with news regarding the breakup between Mohit Abrol and Mansi Srivastava (currrently seen as Lavanya in Divya Drishti). The former had put up an Instagram post blaming the latter for using him, which he later deleted.
As the news started to spread, Mansi’s Ishqbaaaz friend, Shrenu Parekh, waded into the mix, asking Mohit to desist from doing public laundry, as what goes around can come back.
Soon Mohit’s friend, Farnaz Shetty, came to his defense with the following reply –
In the interest of fair journalism, IWMBuzz.com directly reached out to both Shrenu and Farnaz to find out what made them add their two pence.
We first got through to Farnaz, who is now on a break after her &TV show Siddhi Vinayak wrapped up. She had also been part of a war film called Battalion 609, which released in Feb this year.
Says Farnaz, “Being Mohit’s friend, I know that he is a very decent guy. Poor guy was going through a lot these days.”
“Recently, I had bumped into him at a party and he was all alone. I did not have the courage to ask him. Also, if you check out his social media posts, most of them have been above love.”
“It must not have been easy for him to come out like this, but I guess he just snapped and wanted the whole world to know that he had been cheated on. You need to understand that eight years is no small time, plus they were even engaged. Just because you are doing good in life does not mean that you walk all over somebody who has been with you through thick and thin.”
“Having said that, I feel that having taken this huge tell-all step, he should not have backtracked i.e. deleted his post, for today social media tracks your every move and this does not look good.”
“Personally, I don’t believe in washing laundry in public. I too had a breakup, but did not go to town about it. But again, as I say, I don’t really know what was going through Mohit’s head.”
When asked about her reply to Shrenu, Farnaz says, “Yes, my point was simple that ideally you should never step into a lovers’ quarrel, for you never know the whole truth but just one side of the story. So you should restrict yourself to supporting your friend rather than appropriating blame.”
Should Mohit have named Kapil Tejwani as the alleged other man in Mansi’s life?
“Well, maybe he thought that the other guy too was kept in the dark. You need to understand the emotional turmoil of being used, and he did not want someone else to go through the same hell.”
In closing, Farnaz repeated one more time, “I really don’t know what happened; and relationships do flounder, so I don’t want to blame anyone. The best thing would be to make both of them sit down and try to find out what went wrong. And yes, then let things happen, as we are no one to take decisions on their part.”
